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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 578249" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>You're right. <em>You</em> have nailed it. There's a small contingent of fans here who think we can be a football factory - you appear to be one of them. </p><p></p><p>Let me be blunt and for about the tenth time: everyone who thinks this is living in a fool's paradise. Tech's admission standards and curriculum preclude the result you want and nobody with the power to change that - Tech's faculty, Tech's administration, the BoR, or the General Assembly - has any interest in doing so. Good thing too; Tech is an economic engine for the state and the Atlanta area precisely because of its admission standards and curriculum. There is a persistent fantasy around here that that will change because the fans or TStan or the "big donors" or some other Deus ex machina wants it to. It won't.</p><p></p><p>This doesn't mean that we can't have a good football program; shoot, we always have. What it does mean is that seeing Tech's standards and curriculum subordinated to the won/loss record of our football program is, shall we say, highly improbable. As I said here recently: Tech won't adapt itself to the football program, the program has to adapt itself to Tech. I'm sure Coach knows this and was upfront with TStan about what the program could do to improve within these constraints when he was hired; the reports of his interview indicate just that. And I have no doubt the program will improve as long as it keeps Tech strengths in mind. The main one of those is the education the place offers; everything else is icing on the cake.</p><p></p><p>Here endeth the lesson, part deux.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 578249, member: 265"] You're right. [I]You[/I] have nailed it. There's a small contingent of fans here who think we can be a football factory - you appear to be one of them. Let me be blunt and for about the tenth time: everyone who thinks this is living in a fool's paradise. Tech's admission standards and curriculum preclude the result you want and nobody with the power to change that - Tech's faculty, Tech's administration, the BoR, or the General Assembly - has any interest in doing so. Good thing too; Tech is an economic engine for the state and the Atlanta area precisely because of its admission standards and curriculum. There is a persistent fantasy around here that that will change because the fans or TStan or the "big donors" or some other Deus ex machina wants it to. It won't. This doesn't mean that we can't have a good football program; shoot, we always have. What it does mean is that seeing Tech's standards and curriculum subordinated to the won/loss record of our football program is, shall we say, highly improbable. As I said here recently: Tech won't adapt itself to the football program, the program has to adapt itself to Tech. I'm sure Coach knows this and was upfront with TStan about what the program could do to improve within these constraints when he was hired; the reports of his interview indicate just that. And I have no doubt the program will improve as long as it keeps Tech strengths in mind. The main one of those is the education the place offers; everything else is icing on the cake. Here endeth the lesson, part deux. [/QUOTE]
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